Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600

A Midsummer Night's Dream was performed around 1595 and published in 1600, in a quarto printed by Richard Bradock. This edition provides a photographic facsimile of this text taken from the Huntingdon Library. In his introduction Berger discusses the nature of the manuscript, and reconstructs the printing process. He also analyzes the many differences between the Quarto and Folio versions of the play, and considers the extent to which they reflect Shakespeare's own revisions.